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Posts tagged with 'homophobie' at MetaFilter.Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:09:26 -0800Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:09:26 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60They call him the "Rabbah Rouser"http://www.metafilter.com/94298/They%2Dcall%2Dhim%2Dthe%2DRabbah%2DRouser
<i>"There's a tremendous amount of anxiety among religious traditionalists that when you take one step toward egalitarianism, the floodgates are open and everything that seemed self-evident will no longer be. Men go to work, and women raise children. If you undermine that, you have lost your whole universe."</i><br><br>The Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements of Judaism have been ordaining women as rabbis for decades, but the religion's most traditional sect, the Orthodox, remains a lone, minority holdout against egalitarianism. Last year, Orthodox Rabbi Avraham "Avi" Weiss (political <a href="http://jewishbreakingnews.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/rabbi-avi-weiss-arrested-in-todays-ahmadinejad-protest-tomorrows-speakers-paterson-giuliani-thomson-silver-wiesel/">activist</a> and founder of the <a href="http://matzav.com/yated-blasts-chovevei-torah-for-ordination-of-female-rabbi-calls-on-yu-rca-ou-to-denounce-open-orthodoxy">controversial</a>, liberal, "Open Orthodox" <a href="http://www.yctorah.org/">Yeshivat Chovevei Torah</a> Yeshiva in New York) <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/67145/">tried to shake things up by ordaining the first female American Orthodox rabbi</a>. Weiss ordination of 'Rabbah' Sara Hurwitz has led to a statement from the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America accepting <a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/rca_finds_consensus_deepening_women%27s_roles">an expansion</a> of leadership roles for women in their synagogues.
Related: This week, Rabbi Weiss was one of about 100 moderate Orthodox rabbis and teachers from North America and Israel who signed a <a href="http://statementofprinciplesnya.blogspot.com/">"statement of principles"</a> outlining <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=183117">a tolerant, open, accepting approach to gay men and women who want to maintain ties with their Orthodox community, family and friends.</a> The statement says that <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3926452,00.html">"although [Orthodox] Judaism 'cannot give its blessing and imprimatur to Jewish religious same-sex commitment ceremonies and weddings,' communities must still accept 'practicing' gay couples and their children into synagogues, schools."</a>
Homophobia is <a href="http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2010/01/yu-panel-on-gay-homosexuality-draws-homophobic-fire-from-rosh-yeshivas-and-administration-678.html">not</a> uncommon <a href="http://www.filmsthatchangetheworld.com/site/">in Orthodox communities</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.94298Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:09:26 -0800zarq